Title Norman Granz : the Man Who Used Jazz for Justice

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (502 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Prologue: "I Made Things Work"; 1 "All I Wanted Was My Freedom"; 2 "A Marvelous Crucible"; 3 Cole Train; 4 "The Opener"; 5 Let Freedom Swing; 6 Norman Granz versus . . .; 7 Mambo Jambo; 8 Enter Ella and Oscar; 9 The Continental; 10 "I Feel Most at Home in the Studio"; 11 Starry Nights; 12 "That Tall Old Man Standing Next to Ella Fitzgerald"; 13 The Jazz Hurricane; 14 "The Lost Generation"; 15 Duke, Prez, and Billie; 16 Joie de Verve; 17 Across the Sea; 18 "Musicians Don't Want to Jam"; 19 Picasso on the Beach; 20 "One More Once." 21 Takin' It on Out--for Good22 "Somewhere There's Music"; Epilogue: "My Career, Such As It Is . . ."; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z Summary "Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant--and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biogra Analysis 20th century jazz african american jazz african american performers billie holiday ella fitzgerald entertainment industry history of jazz history of music influential african americans inspiring musicians jazz and blues jazz at the philharmonic jazz biography jazz icons jazz lovers jazz stars music and theater music lovers musician biography musician books oscar peterson overcoming prejudice post war jazz post wwii racial prejudice social activist social prejudice verve records world of jazz Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Granz, Norman, 1918-2001. Granz, Norman, 1918-2001 Granz, Norman 1918-2001 Impresarios -- United States -- Biography Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography Jazz -- History and criticism Music -- Social aspects -- United States African American musicians -- Biography African American musicians -- United States Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz. African American musicians Civil rights movements Impresarios Jazz Jazz musicians Music -- Social aspects Jazz -- historia. Jazz -- sociala aspekter. Jazz -- politiska aspekter. Jazzmusiker. United States Genre/Form collective biographies. Songs Music Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Songs and music Biographies. Songs. Music. Biographies. Musique. Form Electronic book LC no. 2011011292 ISBN 9780520949775 0520949773 9781283291835 1283291835 9786613291837 6613291838

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